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China Has Abandoned a Cybersecurity Truce With the US, Report Says (bloomberg.com)
Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike says China has largely abandoned a hacking truce negotiated by Barack Obama as President Trump embarked on a trade war with Beijing last year. "A slowdown in Chinese hacking following the cybersecurity agreement Obama's administration secured in 2015 appears to have been reversed, the firm said in a report released Tuesday that reviewed cyber activity by U.S. adversaries in 2018," reports Bloomberg. From the report: The report comes as the Trump administration seeks to reach a trade deal with China, including provisions on intellectual property theft, ahead of a March 1 deadline. Trump has said he may extend that deadline and hold off on increasing tariffs on Chinese imports if there's progress in the talks. China's hacking targets in 2018 included telecommunications systems in the U.S. and Asia, according to Crowdstrike. Groups linked to Iran and Russia also appeared to target telecommunications, a sector that yields "the most bang for your buck" for hackers due to the large number of users that can be accessed after breaching a single network, Meyers said.
The findings align with concern in the U.S. about telecommunications security as the country transitions to the next generation of mobile networks and the Trump administration seeks to secure so-called 5G technology from foreign intelligence gathering. The administration has expressed particular concern about the spread of products made by the Chinese firm Huawei Technologies Co. The report also mentions the increased cyber activity in other parts of the world. "Iran focused much of its cyber activity on Middle Eastern and North African countries while Russia engaged in intelligence collection and information operations worldwide," the report says. "North Korea deployed hackers for financial gain and intelligence collection, while China targeted sectors including technology, manufacturing and hospitality."
The findings align with concern in the U.S. about telecommunications security as the country transitions to the next generation of mobile networks and the Trump administration seeks to secure so-called 5G technology from foreign intelligence gathering. The administration has expressed particular concern about the spread of products made by the Chinese firm Huawei Technologies Co. The report also mentions the increased cyber activity in other parts of the world. "Iran focused much of its cyber activity on Middle Eastern and North African countries while Russia engaged in intelligence collection and information operations worldwide," the report says. "North Korea deployed hackers for financial gain and intelligence collection, while China targeted sectors including technology, manufacturing and hospitality."
TLDR version of article Orange man bad! Orange man bad! ORANGE MAN BAD!
Orange man bad.
Heroes die once, cowards live longer.
>> official thing negotiated by POTUS
So...the standard of whether or not the agreement was violated is decided by a random security firm?
Prison was invented for clueless inbred faggots who think they're above the law like Duhnold Drumpf. No key required, he's never getting out. Manafort, Stone, all the traitors will die in prison as God intended.
Feel free to cry if you need to, they lied to you. They pretended you were one of them and you believed it, lol fucking idiot.
It's at an all time high. Hot war coming at 4.
Never existed. Obama fooled. Prog left ecstatic over losing.
We are supposed to be disturbed that China is trying to hack our networks and steal information, and intellectual property from us in response to our trying to hold them culpable for stealing information ,intellectual property and one sided trade practices ?
Well I guess the next time somebody commits murder their solemn promise not to do it again should be enough for anyone.
But but Orange man is like Jesus! Double the deficit again please papa orange man! Take more of my money! I was born to be a blind follower! Feelings feelings feelings. No logic or math 4eva!
Are you referring to the unindicted co-conspirator, aka individual 1?
The guy who's been under investigation by multiple federal and state level agencies since before he was even elected? The guy who'd administration has had 34 people charged so far with over 100 criminal counts and 6 guilty pleas from people in his immediate circle? That guy?
Be nice to us economically or face random hacks... we will also tell your citizens that you would not be nice to us and "negotiate" so they will get mad at you about it too.
China is terrible country that is far worse than America. I don't have a problem with cutting ties with that disgusting nation until they stop abusing their citizens. It like someone coming to your door and saying... I want you to sell me your house for 20% off or I am going to harass your neighborhood and watching your fellow neighbor getting pissed off at your for refusing to let bad people get their way!
Sadly, it works too! Just look at this article!
Cut china off the internet for 7 days...
See subject & realize those who control the media (& we all KNOW who those SWINE are kicked nation to nation thru time) are in league w/ the chinks per Davos switzerland BANKERS (aka Rothchild jews) where Xi Ping the 2" prick himself dictator said he'd "get the USA" or something much like it...
* As to the REST of my subject & what it says? Here is what I THINK of CHINGOLAND https://news.slashdot.org/comm... & agree w/ you 100% IF you read that.
Do you REALLY think the 'trolls' that are Anti-Trump are REALLY believing that bs? Hell no - they're on SOROS' payroll, like Antifa was (Jew Soros was caught NOT PAYING THEM & they spilt the beans on that too) - they merely execute what is TOLD them but when cornered? They can't think for themselves & only spit back what their paymasters told them - little depth, that's HOW you beat them into the dirt too by the by!
So when you THINK others don't? That's what the JEW MEDIA wants you to think so it upsets you - tell them:
"Save the WEAK wannabe 'Jedi mind tricks' that work on the weak minded - you don't THINK for ME - I do, for myself & KNOW you're FUCKING LIARS!"
APK
P.S.=> Lastly, understand EVERY FORUMS YOU GO TO is PUSHING someone's "AGENDA" for SHEKELS - & they tried the "RUSSIA" bs, nothing behind it for YEARS now & FAILED - they tried to crap on Catholic school kids too (gosh wonder WHY jews?) & SHIT THEMSELVES on that too w/ Joy Behar the Jewess ADMITTING they were "desperate" - born LIARS is more like it & for greed/for the love of the "Holy dollar" SHEKELS (& yes that INCLUDES /. pushing others' REAL AGENDA w/ JOOgle @ the helm here funding it MOSTLY & pulling "whipslash"'s chain like the GOOD "Lil' DOG" he is, the mangy cur whom I've SHIT ON for the past 2 yrs. no less showing everyone how STUPID the fuck is trying to "get the better of me" & "ban me" (lol, good luck that, the stupid punk bitch he is))... apk
I SMELL JOB SECURITY!!
You don't give ransom to kidnappers and you don't give concessions because the enemy attacks you.
Tell them they can knock that shit off or the market is closed, full stop, until they learn to behave.
What this really means is that China's ability to obtain companies' IP through other means (e.g. espionage or via Chinese law) are not as effective as they once were or hoped they would be. The policy of the Chinese government has been "China first and to hell with the rest of you" long before Trump paraded out his "America First" line. China only does things that will benefit China and therefore the truce was part of that calculation. Now that things have changed and/or it's proven to not be as effective as hoped/expected (e.g. beefed up security and/or higher awareness by US companies), the Chinese government has resumed their normal hacking operations to steal IP. Alternatively, they predicted a massive influx of US companies that would be handing over their IP to China which hasn't panned out as expected. Anyway it goes, they were expecting to get more of the IP from US companies and it didn't happen and their response is to take it by hacking into companies.
Note: I'm not claiming superiority in any regard, I'm just explaining the thought process that dictates their actions. (Take your whataboutism and shove it because this is about China.)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
For comparison, what is the historic and current level of US espionage / hacking of China and Chinese targets? Preferably from an independent source.
Obama just cut back on monitoring so he could wiretap the many Republican candidates, which took up all his time and resources.
The day and next few days after China and USA signed the agreement, I didn't see any different in the attack logs of our servers. About 60% come from Chinese IPs, usually Universities and sometimes "unknown" IPs that aren't assigned to anyone in the world officially.
Every week, I look through the rejects for all web and email traffic. Don't think the attack levels are any different today, though we do get more "your account has been hacked, pay this bitcoin ... " stuff in the spam folders.
I suspect the Orange One hasn't figured out that when you negotiate one thing, you're actually negotiating something entirely different that's not mentioned in the meetings or even by the advisors beforehand, or in the pre-read, or in the papers reporting your "success" or anywhere else. Certainly, his actions with many nations and groups to date don't appear to show that he's grasped this fact, despite being such a stable genius.
Pissing off one bit of the Chinese population/government isn't likely to be invisible to the other bit.
When was a Truce negotiated? There wasn't one. Crowdstrike is the group that handled the DNC server investigation when the FBI was not allowed to look. The propaganda machine is in full swing. The hits on our servers are still consistently coming from China and there has been no slow down.
This shouldn't even be a negotiating point, if they're actively hacking us ban them until they get their shit under control (not like they don't control their whole network at the government level anyway, should be simple to stop the state-sponsored hacks from China.) The idea they would even suggest this as an ultimatum for not buying their backdoored hardware shows they need a kick in the balls.
Looks like someone forgot to take their meds today. Yesterday wasn't a good day for APK and it looks like today won't be either.
Chinese did not abandon the said agreement - they never respected it.
One of the reasons for the trade war was the ongoing cyber-espionage.
And of Obama made it. They will not honor any treaty that stops their march towards dominance.
Corporatism != Free Market
They were violating it while it was being signed, and never actually lived up to any part of it.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Speaking of DRUGS? You need truth serum https://it.slashdot.org/commen... lmao!
* Such FINE "character" (not): Point-blank - YOU & YOURS tend to SHOOT YOURSELVES DOWN IN FLAMES, lol!
APK
P.S.=> Unbelievable - STALKING me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous too & LIBELING me as well? LMAO, as usual?? YOU LOSE, jews... apk
See subject: Did this https://it.slashdot.org/commen... & this https://it.slashdot.org/commen... shut you up? Apparently so.
* Pats self on back!
Ah, it's your SELF-PROCLAIMED "holiness" right? Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording." what a joke. Megalomania.
(KEEP STALKING ME by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous - I'll just keep BLOWING YOUR LYING ASS AWAY, easily... lol!)
APK
P.S.=> Come on TWAT - chatter more so I can FUCK YOU UP even more, please... lol! apk
See subject: Did this https://it.slashdot.org/commen... & this https://it.slashdot.org/commen... shut you up? Apparently so.
Ah, it's your SELF-PROCLAIMED "holiness" right? Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording." what a joke. Megalomania abounds in YOUR culture.
* Pats self on back!
(KEEP STALKING ME by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous - I'll just keep BLOWING YOUR LYING ASS AWAY, easily... lol!)
APK
P.S.=> Come on TWAT - chatter more so I can FUCK YOU UP even more, please... lol! apk
... designing hardened systems.
America is not willing or able to design innovative cyber defenses.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
And your support for this statement is what exactly?
No, citing one, several, or numerous Chinese hacks won't answer the question. We need something specific and concrete that supports the idea that Chinese hacking won't get worse now.
"Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike says China has largely abandoned a hacking truce negotiated by Barack Obama as President Trump embarked on a trade war with Beijing last year."
Is there ANYTHING that Donald Trump can't fuck up?
'Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike says China has largely abandoned a hacking truce'.
The agreement came at the behest of President Xi.
In 2015 he proposed a UN Internet Code of Conduct calling on members to “Comply with the UN Charter by respecting sovereignty and territorial integrity; not to use information and communications technologies, ICT, for hostile activities and aggression and not to proliferate information weapons or related technologies; to cooperate in combating criminal and terrorist activities that use ICT; to promote the establishment of a democratic and multilateral internet management system, and to promote the important role of the United Nations in formulating international norms.”
The US vetoed the resolution and, a few months later, as Xiwas preparing to visit the US, Washington announced sanctions on Chinese companies for alleged digital Internet attacks. Xi immediately altered his itinerary and invited America’s technology CEOs to dinner at Bill Gates’ Seattle home. Forbes reported, “Beijing is pushing back in an unorthodox way by organizing a technology forum in Seattle to demonstrate its own sway over the American tech industry. The meeting is rankling the Obama administration by veering off the script agreed to for Xi’s carefully stage-managed visit.” Apple’s Tim Cook described the reaction when Xi entered the room, “Did you feel the room shake?”
The CEOs discussed the Internet code of conduct and, after publicly expressing their support for Xi’s position, informed President Obama who promised, “The United States will neither conduct nor knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, including trade secrets or other confidential business information, with the intent of providing competitive advantages to companies or commercial sectors.” The New York Times opined, ”Looking back at the trip, the most memorable moment–and maybe the most important–was watching $2.5 trillion of American corporate power pay homage to the Chinese President.” As The Diplomat subsequently observed, “In his visit, President Xi Jinping brilliantly outmaneuvered the United States.”
Since China leads in most of the sciences and technologies, it has no need to spy. Nor is there a shred of evidence that it does.
Oh dear!
An innocent little lamb!
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
So weak, do you need a hankie? How about a cold compress?
Because Trump hates America even more than he hates Obama.